{"id":76118,"date":"2026-05-18T16:28:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T16:28:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/76118\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T16:28:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T16:28:19","slug":"trumps-american-bitcoin-is-following-microstrategy-but-shareholders-feel-the-pain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/76118\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s American Bitcoin Is Following MicroStrategy, But Shareholders Feel the Pain"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">Trump-linked American Bitcoin (ABTC) touted rapid reserve growth and a climb to 15th place among publicly traded bitcoin holders, as Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy) logged its second-largest 2026 Bitcoin (BTC) purchase with a $2 billion buy last week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">The dual disclosures on May 18 highlighted that publicly traded bitcoin treasury vehicles continued to aggressively accumulate, even as BTC spot prices were around 5% below the level recorded the previous week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">Meanwhile, the company&#8217;s stock has reached an all-time low, further dropping 8% today.<\/p>\n<p>    <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/d12a27d95877dc225cd281f1a763e6ad.png\" alt=\"American Bitcoin Sock Price. Source: Google Finance\" loading=\"eager\" height=\"532\" width=\"960\" class=\"yf-lglytj  loaded\"\/> American Bitcoin Sock Price. Source: Google Finance         American Bitcoin&#8217;s Push Up the Rankings    <\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">ABTC, co-founded by Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr., has crossed 7,500 BTC accumulated since its Nasdaq debut last September via a stock-for-stock merger with public miner Hut 8.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">The firm now ranks 15th globally among publicly traded bitcoin holders, climbing 15 places in just over eight months.<\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/ywAAAAAAQABAAACAUwAOw==\" alt=\"Top Public Companies Holding BTC\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"499\" width=\"960\" class=\"yf-lglytj loader\"\/> Top Public Companies Holding BTC. Source: Bitcoin Treasuries      <\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">The company reported more than 3x growth in its Bitcoin reserve and over 700 Satoshis per share, more than doubling that metric since its public debut.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">Meanwhile, ABTC&#8217;s pace has drawn renewed attention to Trump-affiliated digital asset ventures.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">Eric Trump has publicly disputed media coverage questioning the firm&#8217;s business model, defending the accumulation strategy as competitive with larger treasury operators.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\"><a href=\"https:\/\/go.beincrypto.com\/beincrypto-X\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Follow us on X;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Follow us on X&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Follow us on X<\/a>\u00a0to get the latest news as it happens<\/p>\n<p>         Strategy Adds 24,869 BTC in Second-Largest Bitcoin Buy of 2026    <\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">Elsewhere, MicroStrategy acquired 24,869 BTC for roughly $2.01 billion at an average price of $80,985 last week, lifting holdings to 843,738 BTC worth $63.87 billion at a $75,700 cost basis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">Michael Saylor&#8217;s firm reported a 12.6% YTD BTC yield.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">The purchase was financed through Strategy&#8217;s STRC Perpetual Preferred Share Program. The 8-K showed 19.5 million shares raising $1.95 billion for 24,066 BTC at $81,000, marking the second-largest weekly STRC raise on record.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1kwbn3\">&#8220;Strategy has acquired 24,869 BTC for ~$2.01 billion at ~$80,985 per bitcoin and has achieved BTC Yield of 12.6% YTD 2026,&#8221; Saylor announced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Trump-linked American Bitcoin (ABTC) touted rapid reserve growth and a climb to 15th place among publicly traded bitcoin&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":76119,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[10261,7049,75,81,22141,43239,74],"class_list":["post-76118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-eric-trump","tag-abtc","tag-american-bitcoin","tag-donald-trump-jr","tag-eric-trump","tag-michael-saylor","tag-microstrategy","tag-trump"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@people\/116596526739590733","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76118\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}